Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Lello Bersani
as Narrator (voice)
Alberto Moravia
as Self - Writer
Cesare Musatti
as Self - Psychoanalyst
Peppino Di Capri
as Self - Singer
Ezio Pascutti
as Self - Football Player
William Negri
as Self - Football Player
Carlo Furlanis
as Self - Football Player
Giuseppe Ungaretti
as Self - Poet
Camilla Cederna
as Self - Writer
Oriana Fallaci
as Self - Journalist
Adele Cambria
as Self - Journalist
